Healthy hint: Let heart health motivate you

A short spurt of exercise can lower your blood pressure, even if you're genetically predisposed to hypertension, a Rush University Medical Center study reports. Researchers followed two groups of women with early-stage hypertension. One group did no exercise; the other added 10-minute bouts of brisk walking or stair-climbing three times a day, five days a week. In eight weeks, the active women reduced their blood pressure significantly.

– R.J. IGNELZI

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